At 02:08 7/11/03 -0800, you wrote: >I am posting it to the wiki. > Doug, I'll be interested to hear if it continues to flower that colour after you isolate and nurture it. Could it possibly be a reaction to stress for the bulb? Given by the sound of it you stripped the bed and never did anythign with it afterwards, maybe it is different just because it couldn't quite get the resources together to be "normal"? I am sincerely hoping I am wrong...... here's hoping you prove that by flowering it again the same colour next year. IT definitely gives a different appearance to it, that's for sure. Cheers. Paul Tyerman Canberra, Australia. USDA equivalent - Zone 8/9 mailto:ptyerman@ozemail.com.au Growing.... Galanthus, Erythroniums, Fritillarias, Cyclamen, Crocus, Cyrtanthus, Oxalis, Liliums, Hellebores, Aroids, Irises plus just about anything else that doesn't move!!!!!